WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Printable Version

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Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BostonCard - 05-24-2016

Stackhouse is 1-up through 17.Â She could clinch the match.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Langdude - 05-24-2016

Wow. What a shot.

-m.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Viking_Guy - 05-24-2016

Langdude-

Details?Â The Golf Channel livestream on Comcast just died.

VG

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - SUBuddha - 05-24-2016

My feed froze 10 minutes ago, what'd I miss?

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - winflop - 05-24-2016

Based on NCAA site, Stackhouse won 2Up clinching 3-2 Stanford!!!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Spiny_Norman - 05-24-2016

Stackhouse stuck her approach on 18 to about 2 feet.Â When Veysseyre missed her birdie putt, she conceded Stackhouse's birdie.Â Stackhouse wins 2 up.

Stanford on to the semis vs. Duke!Â Standby in about an hour or so for the matchups and tee times.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Viking_Guy - 05-24-2016

Thank goodness.Â Frustration level was high when the feed died just as the SCar player was addressing her 3-footer to halve 17, and never came back.

Well done Mariah!

VG

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - TooMuchTV - 05-24-2016

And Veysseyre's birdie putt came so close too. But Mariah's second shot was awesome.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - fullmetal - 05-24-2016

All right now! :)

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BobK - 05-24-2016

A great win.Â On to the semis.Â This afternoon???

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BostonCard - 05-24-2016

Note that even if Veysseyre had stuck her birdie, Stackhouse just needed to halve the hole by making her two-foot put.Â Basically, once the approach rolled to within two feet, it was over.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - Spiny_Norman - 05-24-2016

(05-24-2016, 11:32 AM)BobK link Wrote:A great win.Â On to the semis.Â This afternoon???

Per the posted schedule, semifinal matches begin at 1:30 p.m.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BostonCard - 05-24-2016

Just me or do 7 rounds of golf over 6 days seem a bit excessive?

The downside of the current match play is that it puts greater demands on the players.Â It is certainly more exciting, but that's a lot of golf. I almost wonder if they could do with 54 holes of golf instead of 72 to get a final 8.

BC

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - CTcard - 05-24-2016

(05-24-2016, 11:21 AM)Boston Card link Wrote:Stackhouse is 1-up through 17.Â She could clinch the match.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - TooMuchTV - 05-24-2016

Matchups are up:

Stackhouse vs Singh
Danielson vs Maguire
Kim vs Choi
Kersten vs Boutier
Aubert vs Carta

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BigEasyCard - 05-24-2016

(05-24-2016, 12:01 PM)CTcard link Wrote:[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=15082.msg163390#msg163390 date=1464114092]
Stackhouse is 1-up through 17.Â She could clinch the match.

To pursue what I think is a Cardboard tradition of arcania (and to make up a handy word), what do you see as the difference between clinching a match versus merely winning?

I had always that "clinching" a match, title, etc. implied winning before the full course of events could unfold. So, a baseball team clinches the pennant 10 games before the season ends, etc.

However, it seems that recently in sports talk clinching has become merely a synonym with winning - as I think BC used it here given that Stackhouse won on the 18th hole and as the fifth pair to finish.

Did I just make up this particular definition of "clinching"?
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CT, I use and understand clinch to mean winning or being assured of a victory.Â So, I consider your example of clinching a pennant before the end of the season to be a special case where we know the result before the entire season has concluded.

Geaux Cardinal!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - DenverCard - 05-24-2016

CTCard,

I always understood clinching EXACTLY as you have.Â And it sort of disappointed me to learn that the word is merely a synonym for winning.Â Seems the way we understood the word gave it a special niche.Â As well, if clinch doesn't specifically mean to guarantee victory before the contest is over, then what word does succinctly capture that situation, absent a longer explanation?

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - FarmDad.01 - 05-24-2016

How about 'seal'? As in, (your team) has sealed the pennant.

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - BigEasyCard - 05-24-2016

(05-24-2016, 12:13 PM)TooMuchTV link Wrote:Matchups are up:

Stackhouse vs Singh
Danielson vs Maguire
Kim vs Choi
Kersten vs Boutier
Aubert vs Carta

Does anyone have insight into the matchups?

Geaux Cardinal!

Re: WGolf @ NCAA tourney - CompSci87 - 05-24-2016

(05-24-2016, 12:56 PM)DenverCard link Wrote:CTCard,

I always understood clinching EXACTLY as you have.Â And it sort of disappointed me to learn that the word is merely a synonym for winning.Â Seems the way we understood the word gave it a special niche.Â As well, if clinch doesn't specifically mean to guarantee victory before the contest is over, then what word does succinctly capture that situation, absent a longer explanation?

It seems to me that clinching and winning have separate meanings in just those sports where play continues after someone has clinched. Baseball doesn't cancel the rest of the regular season after someone clinches. Team tennis on the other hand stops any ongoing matches once one team has won enough points to clinch.

Also you can loosely assert a "clinch" prior to the actual win, as when someone hit a dagger to put a basketball game practically out of reach. You might say "that clinches it!" even though it's not absolutely impossible for the losing team still to make a comeback.